The Almanac · Monthly issue
April 2020
A look at what happened in the Shopify App Store in April 2020.
Aggregate and category-level throughout. No individual app data on this page.
Activity record
82
Apps launched
2,252
Cumulative apps
3,976
Reviews posted
4.71
Mean rating of reviews
5%
1-2 star share
Month-over-month changes: launches +5, reviews +997.
Top categories by launches
- 1Shipping7 launched
- 2Inventory sync5 launched
- 3Workflow automation5 launched
- 4Delivery and pickup5 launched
- 5SEO4 launched
- 6Product variants4 launched
- 7Store data importer3 launched
- 8Shipping rates3 launched
Top categories by reviews
- 1Upsell and cross-sell358 reviews
- 2Email marketing279 reviews
- 3Product reviews264 reviews
- 4Discounts252 reviews
- 5Loyalty and rewards238 reviews
- 6Pop-ups230 reviews
- 7SMS marketing211 reviews
- 8SEO199 reviews
This record is intentionally aggregate. Apps Almanac is derived market intelligence; we do not republish per-app Shopify data on public surfaces. Per-app signals (scores, trajectories, components) are available inside the app for signed-in users.
Apps Almanac is an independent service - not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Shopify Inc. "Shopify" is a trademark of Shopify Inc. We analyze only public listing data. We do not train or fine-tune any AI model on the scraped data.
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How these numbers are computed: methodology.